" Hitchcock continued his conversation a few weeks later, this time dining at Chasen's with William Dozier, an RKO studio executive, and pitching it as " the story of a woman sold for political purposes into sexual enslavement.

* Another Hitchcock film, Notorious, started out as a David O. Selznick production until the producer sold the rights to RKO before production began.

While Hitchcock later claimed he directed the film – the only pure comedy he made in America – as a favor to Lombard, the files at RKO Radio Pictures show that Hitchcock himself pursued the project.

Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct Deneuve in a screen adaptation of the spy novel The Short Night, but by the time the project was ready to go into production, Hitchcock was unable to direct due to his poor health, and plans for the film were scrapped.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

In 1940, he produced his second Best Picture Oscar winner in a row, Rebecca, the first Hollywood production for British director Alfred Hitchcock.

After 1953's I Confess, Hitchcock planned to film The Bramble Bush, based on the 1948 novel by David Duncan, as a Transatlantic Pictures production with partner Sidney Bernstein.

Warner Bros. allowed Hitchcock to scrap the movie, and begin production on Dial M for Murder.

His other major screenplays include the Hitchcock thriller Frenzy ( 1972 ) and the British cult thriller The Wicker Man ( 1973 ) with whose director, Robin Hardy, Shaffer had previously set up a television production company Hardy, Shaffer & Associates.

Herrmann stated that Hitchcock would invite him on to the production of a film and depending on his decision of the length of the music, would either expand or contract the scene.

Richard's Father Teddy ( 1918-2006 ) was a production executive working on, amongst many others, films by John Schlesinger and Alfred Hitchcock.

Strangers on a Train marked something of a renaissance for Hitchcock after several years of low enthusiasm for his late-1940s output, and he threw himself into the micromanagement of some of its production.

At the time that Lifeboat went into production, Alfred Hitchcock was under contract to David O. Selznick.

Hitchcock was to direct two films for the studio, but the second was never made, apparently because Fox was unhappy with the length of time taken to finish production on Lifeboat.

Chrissie Hammond, Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell met in May 1975 while performing in the Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.

Esler-Smith had been the orchestral arranger for the production of Jesus Christ Superstar where Hitchcock and Russell had initially met, and he would maintain a long association with Air Supply throughout his life.

In 1946, it was announced that Alfred Hitchcock would direct the film, and that Laurence Olivier would star as the barrister, but Olivier eventually turned the project down, as he was preparing for his production of Hamlet.

During 1953, the studios were leased to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., mainly for television production ( including the Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents series ( 1953 – 1957 ) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents ) but were sold to Lew Grade's Associated Television ( ATV ) in 1962.

Lacking the lavish production values and visual spectacle of its Hollywood equivalents, Elstree Calling is now something of a curio item interesting chiefly for two reasons: Alfred Hitchcock ( then contracted to BIP ) was one of several directors employed on the production ; and the film is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television ( the linking narrative concerns a television broadcast of the revue, some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions ).

Notable production credits from this era include Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians ' 1991 album Respect, the Stone Roses ' album Second Coming, The Lilac Time's And Love For All, Ride's 1993 ( Carnival of Light ), Elastica's 1994 eponymous debut album, Cast's albums All Change ( 1995 ) and Mother Nature Calls ( 1997 ), Kula Shaker's debut K ( 1996 ), and The Verve's A Storm in Heaven.

The film was the only Hitchcock production to be scored by John Williams, a rising staff composer at Universal who had recently won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg's Jaws.

The movie was co-produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein for their short-lived production company Transatlantic Pictures and released through Warner Brothers.

Hitchcock was impressed by Lauter and asked him to play a major role in the romantic espionage thriller he planned as his next film ; the director's failing health and eventual death in 1980 meant that The Short Night never went into production.

Regarding the Center for the Study of White American Culture ( CSWAC ), a think tank for Whiteness Studies, Kay cited CSWAC co-founder and executive director Jeff Hitchcock, who stated in a 1998 speech:

Producer Michael Balcon allowed Hitchcock to direct the film when Graham Cutts, a jealous executive at Gainsborough Pictures, refused to let Hitchcock work on The Rat.

Perhaps Lehman's most important contribution to Hollywood as a writer was his ingenious screenplay for the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film, North by Northwest, which starred Cary Grant as a Madison Avenue advertising executive who is mistaken for a government agent by a group of spies including James Mason and Martin Landau.

MCA / Universal Chairman Lew Wasserman was a mentor to Mount, placing him on the executive fast track and charging him with managing studio relationships including Alfred Hitchcock, Dino DeLaurentis, Edith Head, George Roy Hill, and Paul Newman among others.

William Hitchcock, who retired in 1938, was a veteran of thirty-four years' local service.

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

* Hitchcock, William I.

Born William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874.

The Aiken Winter Colony was establish by Thomas Hitchcock, Sr. and William C. Whitney.

She earned the acclaim of top film directors, including William Wyler, who called her the most promising actress he had directed, and Alfred Hitchcock, who admired her thorough preparation and quiet professionalism.

** The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock

For example, William Irish was the byline in Dime Detective Magazine ( February, 1942 ) on his 1942 story " It Had to Be Murder ", ( source of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window ) and based on H. G. Wells ' short story " Through a Window ".

* Hitchcock, William I.

In his book-length interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock / Truffaut, Hitchcock told Truffaut that he originally wanted William Holden for the Guy Haines role, but Holden declined.

Other early proponents included Oxford University geology professor and fellow Bridgewater author William Buckland, Sharon Turner and Edward Hitchcock.

When Tabori refused to change the script, Hitchcock brought in William Archibald to rewrite it.

They then set up at a large private mansion owned by William Hitchcock in New York, known as Millbrook, where they continued their experiments.

* Hitchcock, William I.

Ethan Allen Hitchcock ( September 19, 1835 – April 9, 1909 ) served under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt as U. S. Secretary of the Interior.

William Jewett Tucker gave him the following testimonial: " Of the men with whom I came into professional as well as personal relation, no one awakened or exerted so great an influence over me as Roswell D. Hitchcock ... Dr. Hitchcock was a man of wide and genuine learning, but still more remarkable for his mental and spiritual insight.

Among its living members are Massachusetts ' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak.

He starred with Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Karen Black and William Devane in the final film of director Alfred Hitchcock, Family Plot.

Many of the original stars reprised their film roles including Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson in Back to the Future: The Ride, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in Twister ... Ride it Out, Rip Torn and Will Smith in Men in Black: Alien Attack, Brendan Fraser for Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride, Christopher Walken and Dwayne Johnson in Disaster !, the cast from Shrek returned for Shrek 4-D, various Nicktoons voice actors reprised their roles in Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast, Roy Scheider recorded a voice over for the conclusion of Jaws, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera made appearances in The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera while Hanna-Barbera voice actors reprised their roles in the same ride, Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins appeared in Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong and Linda Hamilton reprised their roles for Terminator 2: 3-D Battle Across Time even Charlton Heston made an appearance in the pre-show for Earthquake: The Big One and Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Fisher reprised there rolls from Despicable Me for Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem.